CAMERA PRACTICE: WELCOME ARCHER ROBERT

My friend Rochelle asked if I would take some newborn pictures of her adorable son, Archer. I told her I had never done them, but I would give it a shot. I found some things around the house that we could put him in and made a little "studio" in front of one of our windows. We do not have a great window with natural light, but we made it work. Next house we build, a big window with great natural light is a must! :)

Welcome to the world Archer Robert! You are just too sweet! :)

CAMERA PRACTICE: CORN MAZE

A few weekends ago we decided to experience fall and all it's beauty in a giant (sea creature shaped) corn maze. :)  We went with some friends to the Treinen Farm Corn Maze & Pumpkin Patch in Lodi, Wi. It was my first time doing a corn maze and the perfect opportunity to get in some camera practice. It was such a fun day!

Side Note: I am going to be posting a bit less these days. Life is busier than ever. Ellis has been sick with a fever and a terrible cough for the past five days, I have a few freelance projects coming at me and well, to be completely honest, I feel like my head is going to explode. I love blogging and hope to continue on, but just not quite as frequently. Happy Monday everyone. I am just hoping to survive this week after literally five nights with VERY little sleep. Send good thoughts our way so our little munchkin feels better soon.

CAMERA PRACTICE: GARCIA 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PICS

As I am sure you all know at this point, Jodie is my Kirsten Dunst look-alike bestie. Jodie and Luis (usually referred to as J&L in my blog posts) got married a little over a year ago and Kate (my other bestie - now known as Ohio bestie... boo!) and I were her maid of honors. They got married in their backyard and planted a 'wedding tree' as part of the ceremony. The plan was to take a picture by their tree every year on their anniversary. Well, they got married in April, so we are a little late... but who cares. :)  Jodie has been asking me to snap their picture with their special tree for a few months now and I keep forgetting my camera when we go over for Monday night dinners. Anyways, I called Jodie last week and told her we are taking that darn pic and we are doing 'pretend' engagement pictures, too. Ok, let's just call them anniversary pics. It will probably just be a tradition now. We will call it the annual Garcia anniversary photo shoot. :)

These too are pretty much my favorite. I love them and I love how much they love each other. (that's a lot of loves) I will take pictures of these two anytime. I love Jodie's vintage style, red lips and adorable smile. Luis is pretty darn adorable as well. :)

CAMERA PRACTICE: SRNKA FAMILY PHOTOS

I know I don't typically post on a Saturday, but I was too excited to wait on this one.

I have set a goal to get better at using my camera, so I’m usin’ it! Our friends, Amy and Ryan, let me take their family pictures last night so I could get some good camera practice in. They have their pictures scheduled with a 'real' photographer next week, but agreed to be my models just for fun! I had never done this before, so I had no idea how it would go. Turns out, when you have a beautiful family to take pictures of, you get beautiful pictures! Thank you Amy, Ryan and Maylin! I had a ton of fun!

 I will have more pictures up later in the week. Here are just a few. :)

CAMERA PRACTICE 2

Just a little playin' around with my camera. Like I said before, pretty much just pictures of flowers and E. I need to find some new subjects. Wait... pretty sure I will never get sick of photographing her. never ever. :)

WE HAVE OUR FAMILY PICTURES TONIGHT!!!! YIPPEEEE! And I think I actually know what we are going to wear. That is such a battle, anyone agree?! You not only have to figure out what you are wearing, but the whole family and try to make it mesh well, but not be too matchy matchy. I will post the pictures when we get them back! So excited! I love family pics!